Monument record MHG18475 - General Wade's Military Road, Fort William - Fort Augustus - Inverness

NH41NE 9 4847 1500 to 4987 1999

General Wade's Military Road (NAT)
OS 1:10000 map

NH 4847 1500 - 4852 1514: Wade's road on line of disused tarmac road recently re-aligned.

NH 4852 1514 - 4940 1700: On line of B862 public road, except for c220m which by-pass the approaches to White Bridge (NH41NE 6). On the N side of the River Fechlin c100m of the lower road have been destroyed by a Forestry Commission track.

NH 4940 1700 - 4999 1750: The earlier 1726 Wade road branches off to the NE from somewhere about the church, across the Allt a Loin, presumeably on the line of the B862.

NH 4940 1700 - 4942 1740: Grass-covered track on line of earlier Wade road (1732).

NH 4942 1740 - 4990 1905: The B852 is on the line of the road.

NH 4990 1905 - 4997 1932: Disused track on the line of the road.

NH 4997 1932 - 4994 1953: The B852 follows the line of the road.

NH 4994 1953 - 4999 1979: Disused track on line of the road.

NH 4999 1990 - 4987 1999: B852 on the line of the road, except for the last 40m where it is re-aligned through Foyers to the E of the wade road.
Visited by OS June 1964; February 1979